Before home computers ever had an “adventure game,” there was Colossal Cave Adventure (1976- 1977) by Will Crowther and Don Woods. Often referred to simply as Adventure or ADVENT, it ran on a PDP-10 mainframe, a machine that cost about $150,000 in the 1970s, roughly $1,000,000 in today’s dollars.
That kind of setup made sense in universities and large organizations, where a single mainframe could be shared, with dozens of users on one system at the same time. Around 1,500 PDP-10s were sold, and each could support roughly 64 to 127 simultaneous users. Even with that limited footprint, Colossal Cave Adventure inspired a long line of games, as people encountered it on campus or at work, then went..
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